Comments on: Josephine Baker’s postwar/Cold War “rainbow tribe”http://www.historiann.com/2014/04/21/josephine-bakers-postwarcold-war-rainbow-tribe/
History and sexual politics, 1492 to the presentTue, 31 Mar 2015 20:11:47 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2By: Natalie Woodhttp://www.historiann.com/2014/04/21/josephine-bakers-postwarcold-war-rainbow-tribe/comment-page-1/#comment-2198106
Mon, 16 Jun 2014 02:47:44 +0000http://www.historiann.com/?p=22640#comment-2198106It is interesting how Baker used her strategy of performance in art (performing race, gender) to the everyday notion of performing family etc – in an attempt to disrupt the cultural hegemonic understanding of justice and fairness.
I enjoyed this video and article.
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Wed, 30 Apr 2014 19:50:20 +0000http://www.historiann.com/?p=22640#comment-2018000I hate to see a good post go uncommented on. I was thinking about this one, and I remembered that a couple of years ago I taught an urban-based graduate course (ironically on baseball, of all things), and–wanting to get the students’ consciousness well beyond the playing field and even outside the venue–(no small challenge), I put something in each week that was as deeply-contextual and non-specifically related to the main course subject area as possible. When we visited St. Louis in the first half of the 20th Century, I found Joseph Heathcott, “Black Archipelago: Politics and Civic Life in the Jim Crow City,” _J. Social History_ 28 (2005), 705-736, a close-up look at the Great Migration in that oddly southern and northern and western city. Not a ball or a strike or a long fly ball in the whole piece, but I thought it added to the depth and complexity of the subject. Some of the students, not so much…
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